Mr. Courtney D. Dupree is a co-founder and Managing Partner of GDC Acquisitions, LLC, an industrial and commercial products holding company. GDC has three wholly owned New York based subsidiaries, JDC Lighting, LLC, a commercial lighting distributor, Unalite Electric and Lighting, LLC, an electrical and lighting maintenance company, and Hudson Bay Environments Group, LLC, (HBE) which is commercial contract furniture dealer.

In 2004, GDC acquired JDC Lighting as its first operating company. JDC is one of the leading commercial lighting distributors in New York City providing lighting and accessories for a wide range of projects from single restaurants and retail stores, up to the largest buildings in New York and everything in between. Previous projects completed by JDC Lighting include Bloomberg’s headquarters, World Trade Center Seven, PriceWaterhouseCoopers headquarters, and Lehman Brother’s headquarters, just to name a few. GDC acquired Unalite in summer 2006 because it strengthened the company’s already strong advantages by helping to round out its product and service offerings. In fall 2006, the company moved into the contract furniture distribution business with the acquisition of HBE. The acquisition was strategic in nature as the three operating companies share a commonality in customers.

Prior to co-founding GDC, Mr. Dupree served as a Vice President in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, Inc. where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions for banks, savings and loans institutions, as well as commercial and consumer finance companies. Mr. Dupree’s experience at Lehman Brothers included more than $22 billion in merger related transactions, as well as numerous debt and equity related transactions. Prior to his tenure with Lehman Brothers, Mr. Dupree was a senior underwriter and Marketing Manager for Chubb & Sons, Inc., a leading insurance carrier. Mr. Dupree holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and B.A. degrees in economics and political science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.